The government set a limit of 7.5 trillion yuan for new lending for 2010 but banks exhausted a quarter of that quota in the first two months and over 99% of it by the end of November (see chart).
Nate Ryan, an insurance broker and one of the competitors with solely a hockey background, sat exhausted on a couch.
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This time around, he has been looking for natural gas in the lower reaches of the Gulf of Mexico, a basin that was given up as exhausted just a few years ago.
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This hints that the gold market bears may now be exhausted on a near-term basis.
Thus they are flabberghasted to find that mineral reserves will be exhausted in a generation.
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The exhaust system hums as Rottstein's wife, Vatalana(ph) sits on a metal bed looking exhausted and clutching a wooden cane.
As I recall, however, Will was full of energy and good humor while I was exhausted from a day's editing and crying in my beer.
Exhausted after a long journey, she replied that she did not, forgetting that she had put a few outstanding bills in one of her textbooks.
David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, said Clinton was exhausted and had a cold after returning from his second trip to Haiti earlier this month.
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That being said, at some point either the bulls or the bears will become exhausted and if a clean break is made out of either side of this channel it could have the force of a volcanic eruption.
Start a bridge club: If book clubs bore you and dinner parties leave you exhausted, then maybe a brisk game of bridge is just what the doctor ordered.
The weekend passed in a rainy, exhausted blur, as both Thomas and I had a sickness bug.
Nualjan, a poor, pregnant country girl, wanders far from home in search of her missing husband, and, exhausted, stops at a lonely rural manor.
"By August, a lot of people have exhausted their getting-out-of-town budgets and they just want to find a way to get away within the city, " Ms. Resler said.
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The time for diplomacy often does not come until the sides in a war have exhausted themselves.
In April, with Mr. Lopez's state appeals exhausted, Judge Garaufis granted a request to hold a hearing to review the evidence.
Hot, exhausted, sore, bent a little to the right, and walking a lot, I finally trotted across that finish line in Honolulu.
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Demand for wireless broadband services have nearly exhausted available spectrum, creating a crisis that can only be served by allocating additional spectrum for broadband.
Some exhausted negotiators might count that a jolly good thing.
Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.
But sometimes, instead of just moving sedately to a neighbouring bit of grazing when a patch was exhausted, they would make mad midnight dashes across an apparently suitable habitat, moving as far as 20km during the hours of darkness.
Official Russian history asserts that Stalin believed that Germany, even if it were to emerge from war as a victor, would be so exhausted that it would be unable to wage war with the USSR for at least a decade.
The job was done a week ahead of time, in good measure so the exhausted legislators could be reunited with their families for a long Easter recess.
In 1990, the exhausted members of Bon Jovi took a hiatus from touring and recording.
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While the latest negotiations between Carlton and Granada have broken down, the possibility of a merger is not exhausted.
On the one hand it looks like Abu Rami: exhausted, remorseful and paranoid after a lifetime in gun battles and chaos.
The negotiators at once appeared emotional, exhausted and, at times, a little nervous--perhaps because none of them ever clearly said a deal had been reached.
Uruguay looked exhausted and Robben could have added a fourth when he burst forward on to a Van Persie flick late on, but got his attempted chip all wrong.
This week, the Federal Housing Administration reported that it has exhausted its reserves, possibly requiring a bailout from U.S. taxpayers for the first time ever in its nearly 80-year history.
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The morning haze had burned off, and in the noon light the brackish water appeared deceptively lovely, its surface undisturbed except for a single Jet Ski carving a white wake whose exhausted wavelets lapped at the riprap at the side of the road.
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